TNR Desk
Citing issues ranging from the Congress alliance with INDIA bloc ally Aam Aadmi Party to the Lok Sabha election candidates his party had fielded for three seats in the capital, former Delhi minister Arvinder Singh Lovely resigned on Sunday as Delhi Congress president.
It’s the second time Lovely has resigned from the post. He had earlier stepped down in 2015 when the AAP swept the Delhi Assembly poll, winning 67 of the 70 seats.
Lovely, in his resignation letter shot off to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, said he had over the past eight months made “earnest and full-fledged attempts to re-establish” the party and re-energise its local cadre, but faced various issues.
“The Delhi Congress unit is against an alliance with a party that was formed on the sole basis of levelling false, fabricated and mala fide corruption charges against the Congress and in turn, whose top cabinet ministers are presently in jail on corruption charges. Despite that, the party made a decision to ally with the AAP in Delhi,” he stated.
Interestingly, former Congress minister Rajkumar Chauhan too had resigned on Wednesday. Party sources say more leaders could resign in the coming days. Like Lovely, Chauhan too had cited issues related to the functioning of the AICC in-charge of Delhi and Haryana, Deepak Babaria, and made allegations against his conduct.
A Delhi Congress leader said Lovely had not been coming to the party’s Delhi headquarters for several days. He said Lovely was either under pressure from the BJP, which he had joined for some time in 2017, or was unhappy because he was not considered for a Lok Sabha ticket.
